ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,274, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Valoi.ai (Chicago).

"Text-to-video conversion" was invented by Tristan Brady Nevotne (Chicago), Fnu Shivam (Morgantown, W.va.) and Davio Alexandre Cianci (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to generating a video representation text from an article, story, book, magazine, etc. Prompts can be generated to instruct the AI system to output an audio/visual representation of the text. Generating a prompt can include indicating the main subject of the text, the setting of the text, the action performed in the text, among other things. All text from the story can be repres...